[MPlayer-users] 1080p/60fps plays fine in vlc, not in mplayer

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Piotr Lewandowski <techno <at> punkt.pl> writes:

> >>> -lavdopts threads=4 yields perfect playback. In future
> >>> versions, will mplayer grab more than one core by default?
> >>
> >> Personally, I strongly prefer the current default
> >> so I don't know.
> 
> What would be the rationale not to use all/4/2 cores by default?

Apart from the fact that it does not come for free 
(it does not nearly scale linearly), until a week 
ago, multi-threaded decoded failed for some samples.

Since this is fixed now, I guess the default will 
soon be to use more threads, but don't expect me 
to work on it.

Carl Eugen